Award recipients must meet the following eligibility criteria:
• Recipients must be; residents of the Shire; or have coordinated a community event Within the Shire; or be members of a community group whose principal activities are conducted within the Shire; or be a business or organisation that has contributed financially or in-kind to a community project or group within the Shire• Awards cannot be granted posthumously• Only one person (not a couple or group) may be nominated for individual award categories• Local Government Councillors, State and Federal politicians are not eligible to receive an Award• Sitting members of State, Federal and Local Government are not eligible.